The 80's Are Alive!

On my way to my mom’s place tonight, I passed my old Junior High School. I was a student there in the 80’s and loved every minute of it…well except the hairstyles and fashion. I thought to myself, wow we were idiots for thinking that our hair teased as high as possible and the gaudy neon clothes we had to wear actually made us look good. Yuck! What were we thinking?

No sooner did I say that to myself and I turned the corner to none other than a group of kids; dressed head to toe in neon shirts, hats and pants were standing there. I marveled at how the 80’s fashion has come back with a vengeance. I smiled a little to myself as I realized those kids are more than likely going to have the same ‘Ah-ha’ moment I had just had.

I turned up my radio to try and drown out the memories of my pink spandex cycling shorts; then I realized that it was on none other than the 80’s station…I think Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’ was playing. If that wasn’t bad enough I passed a guy who had a HUGE mullet, I mean this trip down memory lane was going a little to the extreme.

Just when I thought it was over and I was safely in the confines of a grocery store, where there couldn’t possibly be any way the 80’s could revive themselves…I walked down the pop & chip aisle. Then there they were, on the shelf, so close together…if they could’ve they would’ve been holding hands. I mean seriously!

The ‘New’ bag of taco flavoured Doritos; the company not only brought back the flavour but they went so far as to package them the exact same way they had when they first came out…in the 80’s. Then sitting on the same shelf with a sign that said ‘Take a Walk down Memory Lane’; was a case of Pepsi…not just any regular old Pepsi, but Pepsi ‘Retro’. Again the company had decided to put their old logo on the cans; pretty much from the same era of the 80’s.

It honestly was a little cool, I had to admit. I kind of felt like a kid again, I remember shopping with my mom and buying both of these items in the exact same packages. I don’t know why it was so important for the universe to transport me back to the 80’s but it kind of was TOTALLY RAD MAN!